Cohn Quotes in The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Cohn: Do you think they've got any chance at all, sir?

Commodore Jensen: Frankly, no. Not a chance in the world. I should be very surprised if they get even halfway to Navarone. Just a waste of six good men. However, I suppose that doesn't matter, considering how many have been wasted already. I'm glad it's not my decision; I'm only the middleman... Still, they may get there, and they may pull it off. Anything can happen in a war. Slap in the middle of absolute insanity people pull out the most extraordinary resources: ingenuity, courage, self-sacrifice. Pity we can't meet the problems of peace in the same way, isn't it? It would be so much cheaper for everybody.

Cohn: I never thought of it in just that way, sir. You're a philosopher, sir.

Commodore Jensen: No. I'm just the man who has to send people out on jobs like this one.